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Dunelm Group plc
(the 'Company')
Results of Annual General Meeting
16 November 2021
At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 11.30am on 16 November 2021 at Dunelm's Store Support Centre, Pontylue Way, Watermead Business Park, Syston, Leicestershire, LE7 1AD, the resolutions set out in Part 3 of the Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM Notice") published by the Company on 14 October 2021 were duly passed.
Voting on all resolutions was by way of a show of hands, apart from resolution 27, where the voting was by poll as required by the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers.
Prior to the meeting proxy votes had been received as follows:
Number | Resolution Name | Number of Votes Against | % of Votes Against | Number of Votes For & Discretionary | % of Votes For & Discretionary | Number of Votes Withheld* | % of Votes Withheld* |
01 | Accounts | 5,529 | 0.00% | 185,339,367 | 100.00% | 291,206 | 0.16% |
02 | Dividend | 0 | 0.00% | 185,633,127 | 100.00% | 2,975 | 0.00% |
03 | Will Adderley | 2,215,657 | 1.19% | 183,418,503 | 98.81% | 1,942 | 0.00% |
04 | Nick Wilkinson | 630,581 | 0.34% | 185,003,158 | 99.66% | 2,363 | 0.00% |
05 | Laura Carr | 630,894 | 0.34% | 185,002,845 | 99.66% | 2,363 | 0.00% |
06 | Andy Harrison | 1,079,139 | 0.58% | 183,823,191 | 99.42% | 733,772 | 0.40% |
07 | Andy Harrison (ind)** | 1,081,727 | 1.10% | 97,480,487 | 98.90% | 733,611 | 0.74% |
08 | Marion Sears | 1,571,593 | 0.85% | 184,062,169 | 99.15% | 2,340 | 0.00% |
09 | Marion Sears (ind)** | 1,418,031 | 1.43% | 97,876,003 | 98.57% | 1,791 | 0.00% |
10 | William Reeve | 254,208 | 0.14% | 185,310,951 | 99.86% | 70,943 | 0.04% |
11 | William Reeve (ind)** | 254,271 | 0.26% | 98,971,353 | 99.74% | 70,201 | 0.07% |
12 | Peter Ruis | 253,715 | 0.14% | 185,379,454 | 99.86% | 2,933 | 0.00% |
13 | Peter Ruis (ind)** | 253,778 | 0.26% | 99,039,663 | 99.74% | 2,384 | 0.00% |
14 | Ian Bull | 328,643 | 0.18% | 185,305,119 | 99.82% | 2,340 | 0.00% |
15 | Ian Bull (ind)** | 328,706 | 0.33% | 98,965,521 | 99.67% | 1,598 | 0.00% |
16 | Arja Taaveniku | 6,709 | 0.00% | 185,625,653 | 100.00% | 3,740 | 0.00% |
17 | Arja Taaveniku (ind)** | 6,931 | 0.01% | 99,284,010 | 99.99% | 4,884 | 0.00% |
18 | Vijay Talwar | 17,708 | 0.01% | 185,614,654 | 99.99% | 3,740 | 0.00% |
19 | Vijay Talwar (ind)** | 16,668 | 0.02% | 99,274,273 | 99.98% | 4,884 | 0.00% |
20 | Remuneration Report | 2,642,335 | 1.42% | 182,896,339 | 98.58% | 97,528 | 0.05% |
21 | Auditors | 73,719 | 0.04% | 185,558,161 | 99.96% | 4,222 | 0.00% |
22 | Auditors' Remuneration | 5,100 | 0.00% | 185,628,220 | 100.00% | 2,782 | 0.00% |
23 | Allot Securities | 549,534 | 0.30% | 185,085,123 | 99.70% | 1,445 | 0.00% |
24 | Allot Equity | 191,284 | 0.10% | 185,442,220 | 99.90% | 2,598 | 0.00% |
25 | Allot Further Equity | 3,725,208 | 2.01% | 181,906,900 | 97.99% | 3,994 | 0.00% |
26 | Purchase Shares | 2,350,707 | 1.27% | 183,127,858 | 98.73% | 157,537 | 0.08% |
27 | Rule 9 waiver** | 3,183,275 | 3.21% | 96,055,556 | 96.79% | 56,994 | 0.06% |
28 | 14 Days | 2,032,250 | 1.09% | 183,601,070 | 98.91% | 2,782 | 0.00% |
* Votes withheld do not count in the number of votes counted for or against a resolution.
At the date of the AGM, the Company has 203,411,015 ordinary shares in issue, with 135,889 ordinary shares in treasury. Total voting rights are therefore 203,275,126.
**Controlling Shareholders (as defined in the AGM Notice) were not eligible to vote on resolutions 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19. Members of the Concert Party (as defined in the AGM Notice) were not eligible to vote on resolution 27. The Controlling Shareholders and the Concert Party Shareholders were the same parties at the date of the AGM; at that date they hold 86,340,279 Ordinary Shares, 42.5% of the issued ordinary share capital (excluding treasury shares) with voting rights.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 , the full text of the resolutions passed has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
The annual report and accounts and the AGM Notice and a copy of this announcement are available in the investor section of the Company's website at https://corporate.www.dunelm.com.
Name of authorised Company official responsible for making this notification:
Dawn Durrant, Company Secretary
investorrelations@dunelm.com.